Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is priced at $39.99 about $10 less than the typical new game. Buyers would be well advised to use the savings on a pack of Dramamine. The game's colorful, fantastic graphics do not compensate for the motion-sickness inducing camera angles and glitches that interfere with gameplay on the PlayStation 2 version I used.

This week, five new films jostle for space at the nation's cineplexes. Here's a quick look back at films already playing, whose backdrops range from the fanciful (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) to the frigid (March of the Penguins).

Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka is sure to give audiences the willies. Though he's the master of all things sweet, his demeanor is anything but. Still, Depp deserves kudos for fashioning an original and outlandish if occasionally menacing character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Trying to find something worthy to watch in the dead of winter can be the moviegoer equivalent of Dumpster diving. Meanwhile, the hunger for true sustenance gnaws on. We've got the perfect pick-me-up for those starved for a super-size tub full of cinematic snackability. Here's a preview of five big pictures that are sure to pop your corn in 2005.